TeamSpeak is built so people can hear each other clearly, run their own spaces, and not have us in the middle of every conversation. That works because the people on it mostly care about the spaces they're in. These Guidelines sit alongside our Terms and are the floor underneath that: a short list of things we won't tolerate on the platform and a few notes for the people who run servers and group chats on top of it.
They apply to everyone using TeamSpeak. They cover voice, text, screenshare, file uploads, avatars, server and channel names, client icons, server listings, tags, add-ons where they are distributed or made visible through TeamSpeak-controlled services, and anything else you put in front of another user through TeamSpeak. Server owners and group chat creators can be stricter inside their own spaces, but they can't be looser.
TeamSpeak isn't directed to children under 13, or under the local age of digital consent where that's higher. Below those thresholds, use requires verifiable consent and supervision from a parent or guardian.
TeamSpeak servers come in three forms: ones you self-host on your own hardware, ones you rent from us directly through myTeamSpeak, and ones you rent from a third-party Authorized TeamSpeak Host Provider (ATHP). We do not actively monitor every self-hosted server or every private conversation. We may still act when reported conduct affects TeamSpeak accounts, licenses, hosted features, group chats, public listings, service security, or legal compliance.
Voice changes how things land. People hear you in real time, often without much distance between you and them. Don't make TeamSpeak hostile to be in.
1. Don't harass other users. Targeted insults, repeated unwanted contact after someone has asked you to stop, sustained pile-ons, or using alt accounts to get around a server ban or block.
2. Don't use hate speech. Content that attacks or dehumanizes people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or serious medical condition. Hate symbols, denial of mass atrocities, and "ironic" hate played for laughs all fall here.
3. Don't weaponize voice. Mic-flooding, soundboard spam, and audio loops to drown out conversation; following someone across channels to harass them; and voice-changing or impersonation tools used to deceive someone in harmful ways.
Heated discussion, sharp criticism, satire, and competitive trash talk aren't violations on their own. The line is crossed when speech becomes harassment, hate, threats, or sustained abuse aimed at a specific person.
Some content makes spaces unsafe regardless of who's in them. Keep it out, or keep it gated.
4. Don't share gore or real-world graphic violence as shock content. News, education, and journalism with appropriate context aren't the target. Showing it to disturb, harass, or traumatize someone is.
5. Don't promote self-harm. No instructional content for self-harm, suicide, or eating disorders. No using threats of self-harm to coerce others. Talking through these experiences for support is fine; encouragement, glamorization, and instruction aren't.
6. Keep adult content gated and out of public view. Adult content involving consenting adults is not prohibited per se on TeamSpeak, but it must be lawful, must not be accessible to minors, and must not appear on any surface someone could see without joining a properly restricted space. That means no adult content in account avatars, display names, server names, server icons, server descriptions, server banners, channel names, client icons, or anything visible through Server Discovery or Group Chat Discovery. If tags, labels, age gates, permissions, or other access controls are available, use them accurately and do not use them to make unlawful or prohibited content appear acceptable. Inside a server, you can use TeamSpeak's permission system to restrict access, such as a dedicated voice channel limited to a specific server group and hidden from everyone else. Inside a group chat, the people you invite are the people who see what's posted; that puts the responsibility on the creator to keep the audience appropriate to the content.
We assume that the person on the other end is who they say they are and is acting in good faith. Don't break that.
7. Don't spam. Mass-friending people, mass-messaging strangers, posting the same promotion across many group chats, or running services that do this on someone else's behalf. On servers: voice flooding, repeated whispers, mass-inviting people to channels they didn't ask to join.
8. Don't run scams. Fake giveaways, "free premium" pitches, romance scams, fraudulent crypto pitches, fake account-recovery services, counterfeit goods, and fake licenses.
9. Don't impersonate. Don't pretend to be TeamSpeak Staff (the "fake TeamSpeak Support" message is one of the most common attacks), another user, a public figure, or an organization you don't represent. Parody is fine when it's clearly labeled and not designed to deceive.
10. Don't infringe on intellectual property. Streaming or sharing copyrighted music, video, or software you don't have rights to; using copyrighted or trademarked assets in your avatar, server icon, banner, or other visible surfaces without authorization. We act on valid takedown notices.
11. Don't hide bots as regular users. Automated software must not be presented as a regular user while performing actions a human would normally perform. If you need automation, clearly identify the account, integration, or bot as automated, for example, by including "bot" in the username or by using any available bot label, tag, or other clear indicator.
12. Don't sell or transfer accounts. Identity on TeamSpeak is tied to a person. Legitimate ownership transfers of an established space go through TeamSpeak Support.
13. Don't sell or share your license keys. License keys, including the licensekey.dat file for server licenses, are tied to the person or organization to whom they were issued. Letting other people run servers under yours isn't allowed, and the license can be revoked if you do.
14. Don't manipulate discovery or activity metrics. Paid joins, member-count inflation, fake activity, and duplicate listings to push ranking. Applies to both Server Discovery and Group Chat Discovery.
15. Don't evade enforcement. New accounts, rebrands, or alternate identities to come back after an action are themselves a separate violation.
16. Don't abuse our support system. False reports to weaponize moderation, brigading, fraudulent legal notices, or abusive contact with support staff are violations on their own.
The default on TeamSpeak is that what people share with you stays with the people they shared it with. Respect that.
17. Don't share other people's personal information. Real names, addresses, phone numbers, workplaces, financial information, medical information, immigration status, and government IDs. Doing this once to hurt someone belongs here; coordinating it at scale is in "Don't do illegal stuff" below.
18. Don't share intimate images or videos of someone without their consent. Including AI-generated material and deepfakes depicting real people. The original imagery being taken consensually doesn't change anything.
19. Don't record voice without consent where the law requires it. Where recording is available, other people in the channel can see it's happening, and that visibility is useful, but it doesn't substitute for consent in jurisdictions that require it. Distributing non-consensual recordings to harm or embarrass someone is out regardless of jurisdiction.
20. Protect your own account. Keep your password and account recovery key to yourself. We will never ask for either, and anyone who does is phishing you. Use 2FA. If you lose your recovery key, no one, including us, can get the account back; that is a hard limit, not a policy choice. If your account is compromised and used to violate these guidelines, we may still need to act on it.
A short list. These don't depend on context, intent, or framing. If you do them on TeamSpeak or coordinate them through TeamSpeak, your account ends, and, where applicable, we report to the relevant authorities. There is no warning ladder for this section.
21. No sexual content involving minors, in any form. Photographic, recorded, drawn, animated, written, or AI-generated; real, fictional, or anthropomorphized; including grooming behavior. We report this to the local law enforcement.
22. No sexual conduct with anyone under 18 by an adult. Solicitation, exchange of sexual material, or pursuing romantic or sexual contact with minors.
23. No credible threats of real-world violence against identifiable people or groups, including "joking" threats a reasonable person would take seriously.
24. No terrorism or violent extremism. Organizing, recruiting for, or glorifying it. Naming individuals as targets, distributing manifestos, and planning real-world attacks.
25. No coordinated doxxing or doxxing-as-a-service. Compiling, buying, selling, or trading personal information to harass or harm people.
26. No illegal trafficking. People, regulated weapons, or controlled substances. Not on TeamSpeak, not coordinated through TeamSpeak.
27. No attacks on accounts, networks, or systems. Distributing malware, DDoS or DoS attacks (including against other people's self-hosted servers), credential stuffing, or selling and distributing tools that do these.
Server owners and group chat creators set the rules inside their own spaces and are responsible for enforcing them. These guidelines are the floor; you can be stricter; but you can't be looser.
28. Run the place. Document your rules, configure your permissions, and act on your members' reports. Operating a public space where these guidelines are routinely violated and ignoring it is itself a violation, regardless of where the server is hosted.
29. You're responsible for your own privacy compliance. If you log chats, record voice, store member data, or use moderation, analytics, or similar tools in your space, you are responsible for complying with applicable privacy, recording, and data protection laws for that processing. Tell people what you record, why you record it, and where required obtain any necessary consent or provide the required notice.
30. Represent your space accurately. If you list publicly through Server Discovery or Group Chat Discovery, the name, description, banner, and icon must accurately reflect what the space actually is, including whether it is adult-oriented, NSFW, 18+, or otherwise age-restricted. Bait-and-switch listings or attempts to hide the real purpose of a space may be removed.
31. Keep public-facing surfaces for a general audience. Anything visible from a Discovery card or other public-facing surface must not feature explicit sexual content, gore, hate speech, or anything that would violate the user-conduct rules above. Adult-only or age-restricted spaces may exist only where lawful and properly labeled or access-restricted, but the public listing card is not where explicit content belongs.
32. Self-hosting isn't a free pass. We generally do not monitor what happens on a self-hosted server, but illegal conduct is illegal regardless of where the server runs, and the people involved can still lose their TeamSpeak accounts and their license to use the software. Knowingly running a space that's used for prohibited conduct and ignoring it, is its own violation on the owner's side.
33. Group chat creators carry a similar responsibility. Group chats run on our infrastructure, and the people you bring into yours are your responsibility to keep within these guidelines. Encryption is privacy, not immunity; if a participant reports a violation in your group chat with evidence, we can and will act on it.
34. Cooperate when we reach out. If we request information about your space in connection with a safety, security, abuse, or legal issue, respond in good faith and within a reasonable time. Failure to cooperate may result in action affecting the relevant space, account, listing, or access to TeamSpeak services.
If something here has been violated, report it.
A useful report includes what happened, who or what is involved (account name, server name, group chat name), where it happened, when (a timestamp helps), and any relevant evidence (screenshots, message links). The more we have to work with, the faster we can act.
We strongly discourage vigilantism. Don't try to bait or "catch" predators yourself, don't dox accused offenders, and don't run counter-raids. These actions endanger people, and they routinely compromise the law-enforcement investigations that we or others have already started.
Our response depends on what was done and by whom. It can include a private warning, removal of specific content, removal from Server Discovery or Group Chat Discovery, loss of access to a feature, account suspension, permanent account termination, server delisting, server blacklisting, license termination, or a report to law enforcement. Severe violations, particularly anything involving child safety, may result in immediate permanent action without prior warning.
Some checks and abuse-prevention measures may be automated, including spam detection, malware scanning, abuse triage, and license checks. Significant restrictions are reviewed by a person where required by law or where appropriate in the circumstances.
When we restrict content, an account, a listing, or access to a feature because it is illegal, violates our Terms, or violates these Guidelines, we will provide a statement of reasons where required by law and where we have a way to contact you.
If you believe an action against your account, content, space, or listing was taken in error, you can appeal through the Community Guidelines Appeal category if available. If no dedicated appeal category is available, contact TeamSpeak Support and clearly mark the request as an appeal. We aim to review appeals within a reasonable time and will inform you of the outcome where appropriate.
These guidelines will be updated as TeamSpeak grows. We may act on conduct that clearly circumvents or undermines these guidelines, even if no specific bullet covers the exact pattern yet, and we may update the document as new risks emerge. Meaningful changes get announced through the client and our usual channels. The current version date is at the top of this page.
Most of TeamSpeak runs on people who care about their spaces being good. These guidelines exist to make that easier, not to second-guess it.
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